Draft Decision for the Council of Labour and Defence onThe Question of Restoration of the Baltic Fleet[1]

Written:Written October 23, 1920Published:First published in part February 23, 1938 inPravdaNo. 53.

      Published in full in 1963 in the Fifth Russian Edition of theCollected Works, Vol. 41.

      Printed from the manuscript.Source:Lenin
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      2nd English Printing,

      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 42,

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ThePetrograd Soviet and specifically the Petrograd Council
of Defence in the person of its chairman Comrade Zinoviev to be directed to
give special attention to accelerating restoration work on the Baltic Fleet
and coordinating the activities of all institutions capable of assisting in
this matter, while at the same time eliminating all red tape and
establishing effective control over the speedy progress of this work.

Thereport of the Presidium of the Petrograd Soviet and of Comrade
Raskolnikov on the measures taken by them and the method of work adopted to
be submitted within a fortnight by Raskolnikov and Sudakov (this may be
done in writing).

[1]Lenin’sdraft decision, on the question of restoring the Baltic Fleet
was adopted at a meeting of the Council of Labour and Defence on October
23, 1920.